Tribute to Maimuna Anyene
A Tribute to Maimuna Anyene By Ebun Onagoruwa The life and spirit of Maimuna Anyene, who perished along with her husband, four children, mother, and two cousins in the crash of a Dana Air plane Sunday in Lagos, Nigeria, is remembered in this essay written by her best friend. Have you done a “Maimuna”? It has been 3 days since I lost my best friend and sister (Maimuna Anyene), my Godson (Kamsi), Kayine, Kayima, Noah, Onyeka and Aunty Mijindadi. Somehow in my 34 years, I have been shielded from grief so I am in an unfamiliar and very strange place. Intense, numbing pain (60%); uncontrollable tears (35%); logic, rational calm (5%). I am currently in a 5% moment. However, this note is not about me or how I feel. It is all about Maimuna and her family. Not the way they died, but the way they lived. My purpose for writing this (and I struggled about whether to post on FB) is to share lessons I have learnt from her life in the last 24 years I’ve known her and hope her life can continue ...